From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 2, 1914:

• “Six dollars and forty cents from the cash drawer, 16 pairs of shoes and three suitcases in which to carry away the plunder, were taken from the Eudora Department Store at Eudora, Kansas, last night. The burglary was discovered this morning when the store was opened for business. The burglars gained entrance through a back door. They worked stealthily and made good their get away before the robbery was discovered. This morning two strangers carrying a number of packages were seen to get onto the east bound Santa Fe train. They are suspected of having committed the robberies. However, they were gone before the burglary was discovered.”
• “Although it was the only real winter month of the season, February did not produce anything unusual in the way of weather. The report from the University Observatory shows that the means were very near the average in all cases and that no new records were made. The snowfall during the month amounted to 8.4 inches, but this was 2.7 inches less than the average.”
• “Almost every day there are hair breadth escapes from injury by passengers alighting from street cars. Not an hour of the day but machines come whizzing along just as the car stops at a crossing. It has been a great wonder that no one has been hurt so far, but it is only a question of time until there is a serious accident. It seems as if some machine drivers actually increase their speed to see how they can frighten street car passengers. In the cities this is not allowed and it ought not to be in Lawrence.”
• “Eager students crammed Fraser Hall to the doors at chapel this morning for the Student Day exercises; the crowd was the largest of the season, but there was little excitement. The students showed their disapproval of so many rules as to their conduct when they applauded the statement made by Randolph Kennedy that at the new Student Union the men would be treated as men and not be ‘bound by so many rules as up here.’ Roderick V. Reid brought forth the only constructive idea concerning the administration of the University. He suggested a four year law course to replace the present system of one year in the College and three years in the Law School.”
• “Mr. F. P. Smith returned yesterday from the superintendent’s convention at Richmond, Va., and reports a very pleasant trip. Mr. Smith visited the old Confederate capitol and the burying ground where many ex-presidents are buried and viewed many of their remarkable monuments. Perhaps the most interesting thing Mr. Smith saw was General Washington’s old headquarters which he said looked very mean compared with the quarters of the officers today.”
• “This was Bill Collectors’ Day. The first having come on Sunday this class of undesirable citizens were obliged to put off their raids another day.”